Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz ...

An elderly couple in France was walking through a field when they stumbled upon a carrier pigeon capsule that contained a ...

The home of Army Aviation will be officially redesignated Fort Rucker on Thursday, July 17. The change, ordered on June 11 by the Secretary of the ...

Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, and some of the innovations that were developed or came into wide use during the conflict are still with us today.

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce.

World War I broke out in 1914 at an age when new offensive technology — machine guns, airplanes, poison gas, mass-produced artillery shrapnel shells, submarines — had vastly outpaced the arts ...

For a wounded soldier in "no man's land" during World War I, the sight of a dog on the horizon could sometimes mean the difference between death and salvation. Used by countries on both sides of the ...

As their right to vote was debated in the States, a remarkable group of 74 physicians and support staff sailed to war-torn ...

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction. -- Saul David More than a century ago, in 1914, war broke out on an ...

2. “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway, 1946. Hemingway was 18 years old when he volunteered to be an ambulance driver for WWI.